Our client is an expanding, highly professional and award-winning technical consultancy developing state of the art new products.

They are now seeking a Mechanical Engineer.

Working within our client's multidisciplinary teams on major development projects, you will be responsible for developing mechanical designs for a range of products and processes in the healthcare, consumer, and industrial sectors. Your challenge is to solve some of the most intractable of problems. In return your ingenuity will be rewarded with the satisfaction of seeing your ground-breaking new creations launched in the market, making a real difference.

Requirements:
- 1st or 2:1 degree in Mechanical Engineering from a leading university
- Strong abilities in many of the following areas: Concept generation; Mechanism design; Materials selection; Analysis of static, dynamic, fluid or thermodynamic systems; Design for high and low volume manufacture
- Proficient in 3D CAD (Solidworks preferred)
- At least 3 years experience in one of the following commercial environments: technical / design consultancy; technology start-up; new product development department
- Strong drive to rapidly absorb and develop skills in a wide range of engineering disciplines

Our client offers a stimulating work environment in an exceptional location close to Cambridge, with excellent benefits and career development prospects.

Summary: High-technology consultancy seeks a highly skilled Optical Physicist/Engineer to work on client projects, Cambridge, to £60k.

This growing, highly respected consultancy seeks a highly experienced Optical Physicist/Engineer to contribute to a range of client based projects. You must have strong technical skills and the ability to work in a client facing environment.

You must have at least a 2.1 Hons from a good university (including strong A levels) plus a PhD. You will have solid knowledge of optical simulation software, imaging optics, optical design/fabrication/testing. This is an excellent opportunity for a high calibre technologist to work in a highly demanding consultancy environment.

Keywords: Optics, Physics, Optical Design, PhD, Cambridge.

Summary: This high technology consultancy seeks high calibre machine development specialists, Cambridge, to £70k.

This is a leading management, systems and technology consulting company working with blue chip clients worldwide.

You will work directly with clients on a variety of operating assignments, providing innovative technical consultancy developing creative technical solutions for break-out products and manufacturing processes, with a particular focus on special purpose machinery design in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

With a good degree in a relevant engineering subject, you will bring:

- Project management in the build of instruments and machines for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries;
- The ability to look at processes and convert them from front end configuration to hardware implementation (including hands on design); and
- Experience of biological engineering/instrument engineering/machinery design from a biotechnology company, machine manufacturer or engineering consultancy.

A flexible and adaptable approach and a proven track record in working in project teams as well as leading projects of highly skilled engineers/designers, is required. You will have a strong understanding of biotechnology challenges, mechanical engineering and ideally the associated regulatory processes. You must be happy to travel and, although most assignments are in the UK, overseas travel may be necessary.

Keywords: Mechanical, Machines, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Instrument, Cambridge.

Summary: Top High Tech Consultancy seeks experienced technologist with strong CAD skills, Cambridge, to £50k.

Operating on, and leading a wide range of significant assignments, you will provide innovative technical consultancy including designing special purpose machinery with high reliability factors. Working on multiple projects and assignments simultaneously within tight deadlines, you will also be involved in developing fruitful and productive relationship with their clients. You will be involved in a mixture of both hands-on design work as well as managing projects.

You will also be the CAD manager, managing the day to day running of the CAD system, recommending new software and procedures, liaising with suppliers and vendors and acting as a contact for all other engineers and designers.

Educated to degree level in Engineering or an HND with apprenticeship, you will bring

- Experience working within a machine development company, preferably with exposure to writing key documents
- Hands on experience in CAD design - either Pro/Engineer or Solidworks
- Experience interfacing with multiple clients (internal and external)

A proven track record in working in project teams as well as leading projects of highly skilled engineers/designers is essential.

Keywords: Solidworks, Pro/Engineer, Machine Development, Consultancy, Cambridge.

Summary: This growing high technology consultancy seeks high calibre, experienced consultants to work on wireless communications projects, Cambridge, to £60k.

This growing consultancy is highly regarded as one of the leading management, systems and technology providers to clients worldwide. Working within their wireless communications group, you will work on a wide range of assignments and, although previous consulting experience will be useful, you must have relevant experience within the communications sector.

With a good degree in Computer Science, Electronic and Electrical Engineering or a relevant subject, your technical experience from a commercial environment will include:

embedded, real-time programming;
exposure to C, C++, Perl and Java programming languages;
full life cycle experience – inc.software/HW integration;
knowledge of the following telecommunications technologies: Wideband CDMA, Long term evolution and WIMAX; and
experience within OO design.

You must have excellent personal communication skills and be happy to travel within the UK and overseas as required. This is an excellent opportunity to extend your career in this dynamic environment.

Keywords: Wireless, C, C++, Java, Perl, Consultancy, Cambridge.

Summary: A high calibre Electronics Engineer is sought to join this innovative technology consultancy working with blue chip clients, Cambridge, to £60k.

With this innovative, high technology consultancy developing cutting edge products for blue chip clients worldwide. This key role is for a high calibre Electronics Engineer to work on a variety of projects. You must have a 1st or 2.1 Hons degree in Electronics or similar from a good university, and have extensive experience of designing and developing either mass-produced products, high precision instruments, or custom-designed process automation equipment, with full lifecycle experience. Ideally you will have skills in FPGA design or large scale PLC automation projects.

This is an excellent opportunity to use your technical background in this client facing environment.

Keywords: Electronics, FPGA, PLC, 1st, 2.1, Cambridge.

Summary: High calibre engineer with experience of road user charging, vehicle location/transport telematics, sought by top consultancy. Cambridge, to £70k.

With this leading technology consultancy specialising in a wide range of high technology projects for blue chip clients worldwide. This key role is to work directly with clients on a wide range of assignments in the technology area associated with telematics, road-user charging, transport infrastructure, logistics and distribution. You will need to fit in as a member of a small but powerful team. You will demonstrate initiative, drive and willingness to do whatever it takes to help their clients succeed. Although consultancy experience will be valuable, our client is also interested in candidates with demonstrated track records in road user charging / congestion charging / vehicle location / transport telematics, preferably from working within the public sector or a major vendor.

Educated to degree level and with a strong technical background either in embedded technologies or IT, you will be self motivated and target driven, a strong team worker and effective relationship builder with a strong selling and influencing ability. You must be able to demonstrate a solid project/people management track record in a high-tech complex environment and be willing to travel on business. In the majority of cases, assignments will be in the UK but opportunities do exist to work on foreign assignments.

Our client focuses on creating a motivated, passionate group of people in every rank and role within the company. To achieve this they provide the opportunities, support and training for you to develop yourself to the fullest capability.

Keywords: Embedded, Transport, Telematics, Consultancy, Cambridge.

Summary: This high technology consultancy seeks bright physicists to work on a variety of leading edge projects for clients worldwide.

Ideally with a PhD but certainly with at least a 1st in Physics from a top university, with A’s at A level (or the majority A’s and the rest B’s) you will have a range of physics skills including experimental physics and strong numerate skills. You will have excellent personal communication skills and be happy to work on client based projects.

This is an excellent opportunity to join this dynamic technology consultancy at the cutting edge of product design.

Keywords: Physics, PhD, 1st, Cambridge, Consultancy.

Summary: This leading management, systems and technology consultancy seeks high calibre DSP Consultants, Cambridge, to £70k.

Working for a wide range of clients in telecoms, defence and transport, you will be providing advanced wireless techniques to deliver working solutions to clients. You will be providing consulting expertise across a range of DSP and software platforms and designing and implementing digital signals processing software systems for operators and manufacturers in the wireless telecoms industry.

With a good degree in a relevant technical discipline, you must have proven experience in wireless DSP and embedded software development. You will have:

· a strong development background, demonstrating wireless systems engineering skills and also technical depth in 2G/2.5G/3G physical layer;
· design experience of C/C++ embedded software systems;
· experience of DSP algorithm design and implementation; and
· development experience with systems based on real-time operating systems.

You must also be able to demonstrate a solid project/people management track record in a high-tech complex environment and be willing to travel on business. In the majority of cases, assignments will be in the UK but opportunities do exist to work on foreign assignments.

Keywords: Wireless, DSP, C, C++, Embedded, Consultancy, Cambridge.

With this growing consultancy specialising in innovative, high technology solutions for blue chip clients worldwide.

This key role is for a high calibre Physicist with at least a 2.1 Hons, excellent A levels, and ideally a PhD, to take the lead in partnership with some of the world’s leading companies, working to demanding timescales. Project management experience is highly desirable.

You must have strong analytical skills; experience of numerical simulation tools; experimental system/instrumentation design; and experience with sensors and actuators.